Microsoft has launched a massive initiative to enroll in several artificial intelligence courses through LinkedIn.

Microsoft CEO Kate Behncken announced the AI ​​Skills Initiative project via a post on LinkedIn. This is part of Microsoft’s Skills for Jobs program. With the new project, people can take courses on AI via LinkedIn Learning.

certified

With this tutorial, you can earn what Behncken says is the first professional generative AI certificate you can earn online.

The certificate is already available in English, but will also be available in the following months:

• German
• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese)
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• French

target audience

A recent survey by Microsoft once again confirmed the role of AI in the future professional world of many people. This new initiative is aimed at both people who are afraid of artificial intelligence and people who really want to work with it a lot more.

Through its own Data for Good Lab, Microsoft is collaborating with data.org and GitHub to explore how academic or social organizations can use and implement these courses.

That’s why these partners are also launching the Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge, an open grant program that aims to support a number of these organizations in a variety of ways. Microsoft focuses its attention primarily on groups that want to use AI in a fair and socially relevant way.

LinkedIn and Microsoft will continue to integrate the AI ​​themselves anyway. The professional social media platform recently launched an AI chatbot to help you write posts, and Microsoft released another preview of Windows Copilot this week.